Europeans and their beliefs. Introduction to public opinion analysis

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Course ID:	WS-PO-EU-EATB
Erasmus code / ISCED:	(unknown) / (unknown)
Course title:	Europeans and their beliefs. Introduction to public opinion analysis
Name in Polish:	Europeans and their beliefs. Introduction to public opinion analysis
Organizational unit:	Institute of Political Science
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Course homepage:	http://www.pawelmatuszewski.com
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
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Subject level:	elementary
Learning outcome code/codes:	enter learning outcome code/codes
Short description:	The course concerns the opinions of Europeans on the important political, social and economic issues. Students will have an opportunity to get familiar and compare the opinions of citizens of various European countries on such topics as relationship to the market economy and democracy, tax, euthanasia, abortion, etc. In the classes will be used freely available data from the European Social Survey and the World Value Survey. In both cases there are provided online analytical tools so students will be able to independently search for information of interest. The aim of the course is mainly the transfer of basic skills of analysing public opinion. During the course students will have an opportunity to develop knowledge, analytical and soft skills. This applies to the understanding of other people, improving introspection skills, raising awareness of the presence of differences between people and obtaining skills to explain these differences.
Full description:	The course concerns the opinions of Europeans on the important political, social and economic issues. Students will have an opportunity to get familiar and compare the opinions of citizens of various European countries on such topics as relationship to the market economy and democracy, tax, euthanasia, abortion, etc. In the classes will be used freely available data from the European Social Survey and the World Value Survey. In both cases there are provided online analytical tools so students will be able to independently search for information of interest. The aim of the course is mainly the transfer of basic skills of analysing public opinion. Course content includes the following topics: characteristics of good surveys, basic principles of survey responses analysis, determinants of opinions and attitudes, usage of contingency tables. During the course students will have an opportunity to develop knowledge, analytical and soft skills. This applies to the understanding of other people, improving introspection skills, raising awareness of the presence of differences between people and obtaining skills to explain these differences.
Bibliography:	Boudon, Raymond, The Origins of Values. Transaction Publishers, 2001 Donsbach, Wolfgang, Michael W. Traugott (eds). The SAGE Handbook of Public Opinion Research. SAGE Publications Ltd, 2008. Glynn, Carroll J., Susan Herbst, Robert Shapiro, Garrett O’Keefe. Public Opinion. Boulder: Westview Press, 1999. Page, Benjamin I., Robert Y. Shapiro. The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans’ Policy Preferences. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1992. The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS:	E1 - student can distinguish between properly and badly conducted public opinion research E2 - student knows latest changes in European public opinion and can explain them E3 - student can analyze public opinion using available data
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Final grade: 50% test 50% final project

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